David, Tony Abbott is not the cause of this problem, he's just the one who's holding the reigns when the enevidable has raised it's head. It's successive governments, with their lack luster, politically correct way of thinking that has allowed these people to immigrate to our peace loving nation, and gain momentum on their quest to eventually take over. Or at least that's their agenda.

Now while I accept that most Muslims here are decent people, the problem is that not even they can control the extremists who feed ofF the same beliefs. Remove the religion/faith, and you remove the majority of the problems we now face through no fault of our own.

An attack on us has always been on the cards, it's just that this latest move may have excelerated the risk. The big question now is do we keep the pressure on, or, do we do as usual and go so far then back off, which achieves very little.

I say keep the momentum rolling and rid our nation of this trash that the extremists feed off and if that's offends some, the door is not locked and they can leave at any time. Our country should not accommodate such hatred of our fellow man.

Lol!...spindoc...read rehctub's post...that's funny.

Straight from the Abbott govt ACME Hysteria Manual.

And then there's this.....

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sword-removed-in-counterterrorism-raids-a-common-plastic-decoration-owner-reveals-20141007-10r7nj.html

"It was one of the most frightening, powerful images to emerge from counter-terrorism raids across Sydney last month.

As one man was charged with conspiring to behead a random person in Sydney's CBD, police removed a sword in an evidence bag from a Marsfield home.

But the owner of the menacing item has revealed that it is actually a plastic decoration common in almost every Shiite Muslim household."

"Azari, 22, was charged with conspiring to commit a terrorist act after allegedly speaking to terrorist Mohammad Ali Baryalei via phone and taking orders to seize a random person from the city's streets and behead them.

Dirani was detained and later released without charge."

".....wouldn't be able to cut a cucumber"."

But, of course, we shouldn't let technicalities like that get in the way of a good beat up....

ODE TO A TERMINAL BORE!

There was a silly old codger called Rhrosty, whose demeanor was quite often frosty.

He thought that he knew everything,

Believed that Shakespeare didn’t compare to him,

Poor old Rhrosty; verbal diarrhea finished him off. It proved to be no loss!

Poirot, I think you will find that all of the recent beheading have been performed with a hunting style knife.

Besides, I would think it would be hard to conceal a large sword, unless of cause the offender was a man, dressed as a Muslim woman. Food for thought, hey!

@ Hasbeen, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 12:21:57 PM

While I support free university, no fees, the upside of fee paying students is that the previous very large rump of academics who expected continuance of their comfy, unaccountable sinecures as of by right and didn't care squat about students or skills in short supply, are now squirming under the reporting and other accountability measures.

Of course it was their own 'Progressive' politics that emptied the bucket of taxpayers money that in turn resulted in fee paying students (and buying international students with citizenship if they paid big fees). Predictably, the students soon turned around to say, "OK, since we're paying, what about lecturers actually delivering for once?".

Since then, there has been nothing but screaming from the sociology and other social 'sciences'. Lets face it, if that gender studies major or human rights law can't buy a 'manager' job in the public service anymore, why pay for it?

There used to be dozens of academics on university payrolls who were never seen except on pay day and whose only 'production' was the occasional paper that summarised other researchers' findings. It goes without saying that they were totally unconcerned about students and would have been self-righteously aghast, alarmed and angry, if they were ever asked about 'minor' details as student failure rates in 'their' faculties. True some still exist, but it is only a question of time before the dwindling guvvy grants for self-justifying 'research' run out entirely.

rehctub,

"Besides, I would think it would be hard to conceal a large sword, unless of cause the offender was a man, dressed as a Muslim woman. Food for thought, hey!"

I'm sure you'll find that scenario in chapter eleventy of the Hysteria manual.

But in the meantime....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07/man-denied-bail-over-muslim-abuse-in-newcastle/5796412

"Scott Papworth, 27, is accused of yelling abuse about Islam and punching a side-view mirror as a woman, 26, and her mother sat in a car in the city about 7:00pm (AEDT) last night.

Police say Papworth followed the pair as they drove away and continued the abuse after they pulled over to fix the car's mirror.

Papworth is also accused of punching a man who tried to help the women, and stealing mobile phones from two people who intervened, before being apprehended by members of the public."

Look at all the good cheer the govt's hysteria has engendered.

Warms the cockles, hey!